Language and Culture - Global Flows and Local Complexity

The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths.

About the author

Karen Risager is Professor Emerita in Cultural Encounters, Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research field is language and intercultural education from a transnational and global perspective. She has published widely, including Representations of the World in Language Textbooks (Multilingual Matters, 2018).

Product details

• Authors: Karen Risager
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2006
• EAN: 9781853598593
• ISBN: 978-1-85359-859-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 211 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Languages for Intercultural Co; Languages for Intercultural Co
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics